German War tokens.

The Duren 10 pfennig piece was the first one I got about 25 years ago in a lot of mixed world coins. That was back in the days when very few people knew how to use the internet and it took a while to figure out what the coin was. I found the topic interesting, and ended up buying the books by Upton and Lamb. Now I have about 600 different Funck varieties from about 280 different towns. All because of that Duren piece that took a while to research

 

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I took some my kriegsgeld/notgeld/WWI occupation money out of the holders and tried to get some pictures. For today:
Aachen 1920 25 Pfennig


Bremen Undated 1918-22 2 Pfennig

 

Both coins minted by L. Chr. Lauer, from Nuremberg.

 

Coblenz 1918 25 Pfennig
It's a little hard to read the text on my photos, but these had a variable redemption
date. It reads "GÜLTIG BIS 1 JAHR NACH FRIEDENSSCHLUSS"
(Good for 1 year after the conclusion of peace) The end date of the War was still
speculative when these were minted.

 

Nice coin, minted by Gebrüder Kugel & Fink, from Lüdenscheid.

 

A couple more:

Neuweid am Rhein 1917 10 Pfennig
There are a couple versions of these, I think this is iron rather than zinc.

Mainz 1918 5 Pfennig
I like the design on this one.

 

Interesting pieces, the first minted by Wilhelm Deumer, from Lüdenscheid, and the second by L. Chr. Lauer, from Nuremberg.

 

Very nice, this piece was minted by F.W. Busch, from Lüdenscheid, and the mintage was 53.150 pieces.

 

This coin was minted by Adam Donner between 1916 and 1918, from Elberfeld.

 

That's right, minted by Heinrich Timm, from Berlin.

 

Both pieces were minted by Gebrüder Kugel & Fink, from Lüdenscheid, and the quantity minted were 500,000 pieces for Bonn and 501,500 for the other piece.

 

Very nice piece minted by L. Chr. Lauer, from Nuremberg. The amount was 331,750 pieces.

 

One very ugly woman

 

Altenburg.
Town in Thuringia with the population about 33000.

10 pfennig 1920, zinc, weight - 2,82 g., size - 21 mm, thickness - 1,42 mm, mintage unknown. Single release.

 

Arnstadt.
Town in Thuringia with the population about 25500.

10 pfennig (without date), iron, weight - 2,47 g., size - 20,1 mm, thickness - 1 mm, mintage - 100000 pcs. Minted in Nuremberg. Single release.

 

Two more:
Oberamt Göppingen, 1918, 10 Pfennig, Iron (Württemberg, Göppingen District)


Rodach, 1918, 50 Pfennig, Zinc

 

I don’t know...

That second chin kinda does something for me.

 

1 GROSCHE (or Groschen in standard German) means it had a value of 10 pfennig. The word "Öcher" is local dialect for "Aachener", this coin was minted by L. Chr. Lauer, from Nuremberg.

 

Very nice pieces! The first was minted by Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik of Göppingen. Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik, a German tableware manufacturer, founded in 1853. This Company was originally called Metallwarenfabrik Straub & Schweizer and was opened as a metal repairing workshop. Through mergers and acquisitions, by 1900 they were the world's largest producer and exporter of household metalware, mainly in the Jugendstil, or Art Nouveau style, designed in the WMF Art Studio under Albert Mayer, sculptor and designer, who was director from 1884 to 1914.

In 1880 after Metallwarenfabrik Straub & Schweizer merged with another German company, it was renamed as the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik. WMF acquired the Polish metalware factory Plewkiewicz in Warsaw in 1886, which then became a subsidiary of WMF around 1900. During this period, the WMF employed over 3500 people. In 1890 they acquired the Kunstanstalt für Galvanoplastik München, which specialized in electrotyping and electroforming of statues and statuettes for buildings, fountains, tombstones, and gardens; this became the Abteilung für Galvanoplastik (Galvanoplastic Division) of WMF. During the 1920s, Abteilung für Galvanoplastic was producing reproductions of large-scale Italian Renaissance bronze works for an American clientele. Albert Weiblen Marble & Granite Co., Inc. of New Orleans pursued the acquisition of a gilt copper reproduction of Ghiberti's "Gates of Paradise". In 1910, the Reale Istituto di Belle Arti had granted WMF the exclusive right to take a sharp cast of the original doors, from which WMF created a reproduction that was exhibited at the International Building Trades Exhibition in Leipzig (1913). WMF produced a trilingual catalog about the doors, titled Erztüre des Hauptportals am Baptisterium in Florenz.